John Pegram (representative)

John Pegram (16 November 1773-8 April 1831) was a member of the US House of Representatives (DR-VA 19) from 21 April 1818 to 3 March 1819, succeeding Peterson Goodwyn and preceding James Jones.

Biography
John Pegram was born in Bonneville, Dinwiddie County, Virginia in 1773, and he served in the House of Delegates from 1797 to 1801 and from 1813 to 1815, in the State Senate from 1804 to 1808, as commander of Virginia's militia forces during the War of 1812, and in the US House of Representatives from 1818 to 1819. He died in 1831. His grandchildren John Pegram and Willie Pegram became Confederate generals during the American Civil War.